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  1. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  2. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  3. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  4. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  5. The Clock Came Off the Wall

    In the spring of 2018, schools in England started taking analog clocks down from the walls of their examination halls. The reason arrived in the education press without a trace of shame: teenagers sitting their exams could no longer read a dial, they grew anxious watching a circle that told them nothing, and the schools judged it kinder to remove the clock than to teach the child. A deputy leader of the head teachers' association explained that students were more accurate with digital displays. So the ladders went up, the hands came down, and an instrument that had governed rooms of learning for two centuries was carried to the storage closet as a courtesy to the people it once served. I have kept that ladder in my head ever since, because it shows the modern school system performing its signature move in a single gesture: confronted with an untaught skill, remove the evidence. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/17/the-

  6. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  7. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  8. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  9. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  10. ACT schools grappling with class 'splitting', as union flags more industrial action
    By Madeleine Rojahn, Peter Lusted, and Adam Shirley

    A nationwide teacher shortage affecting the ACT is causing huge teacher workloads and disrupting learning, as the union calls on the government to step up its pay and conditions offer.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-17/cla

    #PublicSchools #IndustrialAction #Education #MadeleineRojahn #PeterLusted #AdamShirley

  11. Wandering bear forces 94 schools to close in Japanese city before drone-guided capture ends panic

    A roaming bear in a Japanese city north of Tokyo forced public schools to close, led a university to cancel classes, and prompted residents to stay inside until offic…
    #Japan #JP #JapanNews #cityofficials #Japanese #Japanesenews #news #publicannouncement #publicschools
    alojapan.com/1497873/wandering

  12. Wandering bear forces 94 schools to close in Japanese city before drone-guided capture ends panic

    A roaming bear in a Japanese city north of Tokyo forced public schools to close, led a university to cancel classes, and prompted residents to stay inside until offic…
    #Japan #JP #JapanNews #cityofficials #Japanese #Japanesenews #news #publicannouncement #publicschools
    alojapan.com/1497873/wandering

  13. alojapan.com/1497873/wandering Wandering bear forces 94 schools to close in Japanese city before drone-guided capture ends panic #CityOfficials #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #news #PublicAnnouncement #PublicSchools A roaming bear in a Japanese city north of Tokyo forced public schools to close, led a university to cancel classes, and prompted residents to stay inside until officials used a drone to help tranquilize the animal. What happened? According to CBS Ne

  14. This man appears to want #Trump #Bibles, not #inhalers, for #Oklahoma's #children, Ryan Walters is supposed to be Oklahoma's "Superintendent of Public Instruction." The Request for Proposal #RFP looking to award a contract for “the purchase of 55,000 King James Version Bibles with US Pledge of Allegiance, The U.S. #DeclarationofIndependence, The U.S. #Constitution, and The U.S. #BillofRights documents included.“ Specifically on #trump #bibles. oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/ #education #publicschools